To me, the most interesting thing here is how allegations (quite well substantiated in Anderson's case) give us an opportunity to reevaluate a career's worth of contributions without the haziness of reverence, and how when we do that we sometimes find those contributions lacking. The Anderson/Watson pathology, of developing talent for self-promotion and surreptitious appropriation of credit due to others, is endemic in my field (software security), so I might just be sensitive to it.